[Dean's World] Ron Coleman: 44 years of no excuses

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Posted by Ron Coleman:
44 years of no excuses
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1200068006.shtml


   On this day in 1964,

     In a landmark report, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry
     issued the warning that smoking may be hazardous for one's health,
     concluding that it has a causative role in lung cancer, chronic
     bronchitis, emphysema, and other illnesses.

   That's how long it's been since there's been no excuse. (From
   [1]Wikipedia.)

   It's bad enough that people do this to themselves -- smoke cigarettes
   -- despite what everybody has known in those 44 years. What is also
   remarkable is the hypocrisy of everyone else in the murder-suicide
   chain -- but most of all, the state, which profits massively from
   tobacco taxes excised from addicts and from corporate and business
   taxes on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, which doles out
   billion-dollar legal fees to politically-connected law firms that
   represent the "victims," runs the judicial system that let that dirty
   deal go down, and pretends in the most preposterously [2]transparent
   manner to actually care about who smokes.

   Our country and our economy are addicted to assisted suicide by
   tobacco, and almost all of us are, one way or another, in on the game.

References

   1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_11
   2. http://likelihoodofsuccess.com/2007/06/08/the-big-lie/